Nancy Kerrigan

After the football and the turkey, tune in Kaleidoscope on Thanksgiving.  C3 is part of the show!

Featuring cancer survivors Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, and Olivia Newton-John, Kaleidoscope focuses on women and cancer, raising awareness of how cancer affects women and providing strength to triumph over it.

Taped before an audience almost entirely of cancer survivors, Kaleidoscope will air at 4 p.m. EST, Thursday, November 26, Thanksgiving Day on FOX.

Watch for the more than 200 C3 cancer survivors and their families who were at the taping in the Verizon Center. Read the rest of this entry »

Nancy Roach is the Founder of C3 and Chair of the Board of Directors.

On September 14, I participated in the second Conference on Clinical Cancer Research, hosted by Friends of Cancer Research and the Engelberg Center for Health Reform at the Brookings Institute.  The 2008 conference identified specific areas of clinical research that could be “de-bureaucracied”.  In 2009, the conference presented the progress made in the past year, and identified next steps.

Following is background and a report on my panel’s discussion regarding centralized review of scans to determine progression free survival in phase 3 trials.

Warning: this meeting delved into highly technical aspects of clinical research, so the following is a little geeky!

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C3 Vice President for Operations, Judi Sohn, explains how cloud computing has helped C3 grow successfully over a short time in a new video included in the Convio e-newsletter going to thousands of people.

She also manages to let those many readers know about C3′s mission and work, as she explains how keeping our heads in the online clouds has saved money while drawing together staff and volunteers from across the country to win the fight against colorectal cancer. Read the rest of this entry »

C3 is excited to be a partner in Kaleidoscope – a holiday entertainment special featuring Olympic skating champions and GRAMMY Award-winning music artists while addressing issues surrounding women and cancer.

The show will air nationally on FOX on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2009 from 4:00 – 5:30pm EST  immediately following the Thanksgiving football telecast.

Presented with the support of sanofi-aventis, the show will be highlighted by the historic return of legendary Scott Hamilton and Dorothy Hamill who will skate to the music of fellow cancer survivor Olivia Newton-John and music producer David Foster.   Read the rest of this entry »

C3:Colorectal Cancer Coalition welcomes Catherine Knowles as its new Director of Policy.  She joins the C3 staff on September 21.

Before coming to C3, Catherine was Legislative Counsel to Congresswoman Kay Granger of Texas where she had responsibility for health care issues in addition to matters involving social security, education, labor, and small business. Read the rest of this entry »